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City-funded shelter providers collecting millions of dollars to provide shelter to a near-record number of homeless New Yorkers are rife with nepotism, bloated executive pay and double-dipping, according to an extensive report released by the city’s Department of Investigation on Thursday.
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A crowd of supporters cheered Brooklyn Councilmember Susan Zhuang as she exited a routine court hearing Tuesday in her criminal case for allegedly biting a police officer at a protest in her district against a forthcoming homeless shelter. Zhuang pleaded not guilty in July to second degree assault and other charges, and on Tuesday morning…
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Marcos Ferreira Batista, 44, hadn’t sketched in more than a decade. But as he settled into a new city while living at a sprawling migrant shelter in Clinton Hill, he felt compelled to draw again, tormented by the faces of migrants whose paths he’d crossed on his two-month long journey from Chile to the United…
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The city is moving to close the 3,000-migrant tent shelter on Randall’s Island by the end of February, officials announced Wednesday. Mayor Eric Adams said in a press release that the planned closure showed the city is turning “the corner on this crisis” thanks to his administration’s “smart management strategies and successful advocacy.” The release…
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Federal prosecutors charged an aide to Mayor Eric Adams with witness tampering and destruction of evidence in connection with the federal corruption case against Adams, in a complaint unsealed by a Manhattan judge Tuesday. Mohamed Bahi, 41, senior liaison to the city’s Muslim community in the mayor’s Community Affairs Unit, is the first person after…
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Three shelter security guards are suing the city and Mayor Eric Adams’ embattled former advisor Tim Pearson, alleging he attacked them last fall when they asked for his identification at the entrance to a midtown migrant shelter. “Bitch, do you know who I am?” Pearson shouted at Arrow Security employee Leesha Bell, as he grabbed…
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In a fluorescent-lit meeting room of a Brownsville apartment complex, several dozen residents gathered for the monthly meeting of the 73rd Precinct Community Council last Thursday evening, a week and a half after two of its officers had opened fire in a busy L-train subway station severely injuring two bystanders in pursuit of a man…
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Federal prosecutors charged the treasurer of a losing 2021 campaign for Brooklyn borough president with wire fraud for her role in a straw-donor scheme, according to filings released Wednesday. Queens resident Erlene King, a 2009 City Council candidate herself, served as the treasurer for Anthony Jones when he ran in the 2021 race to replace…
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Several dozen tenants of Manhattan Plaza crowded into a meeting room last Tuesday evening and over complimentary slices of pizza heard from representatives of a plan to erect Manhattan’s first casino in the heart of Times Square. Roc Nation and SL Green’s proposal for 250,000 square feet of gambling space and a 950-room hotel tower…
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New York City’s Office of Asylum Seeker Operations Director Molly Schaeffer was hit with a request for information from federal investigators, an Adams administration source confirmed Friday. The subpoena, which was first reported by the Associated Press, points to widening federal inquiry that’s entangled a stunning number of top officials in Mayor Eric Adams inner…